Shell Green was a sloping cotton-field
on the seaward side of Bolton's Ridge. It was captured, and passed, by the 8th
Australian Infantry Battalion on the morning of the 25th April 1915, but it
remained throughout the campaign close to the Turkish line and subject to
frequent shelling from Olive Grove and Gaba Tepe, though sheltered by Bolton's
Ridge. The cemetery is on the edge of the steep slope overlooking the sea. It
was used from May to December 1915, largely by the Australian Light Horse and
the 9th and 11th Infantry Battalions AIF. It was originally two cemeteries a
short distance apart; but after the war it was made into one cemetery and
enlarged by the concentration of 64 graves from the battlefields, and from four
small burial grounds. The cemetery covers an area of 2,750 square yards. It
contains the graves of 408 soldiers from Australia and one from the United
Kingdom; eleven are unidentified. On either side of it is a thick belt of
shrubs, and behind it a belt of trees.

The cemeteries concentrated here were
the following:- ARTILLERY ROAD CEMETERY and ARTILLERY ROAD EAST CEMETERY,
containing 21 Australian graves of April and May 1915. These were North-East
from Shell Green, between the "Artillery Road," which led up from
Shell Green to Brown's Dip, and the front-line trench near the Wheatfield.
WRIGHT'S GULLY CEMETERY, South of Shell Green, near Chatham's Post. It contained
the graves of eight men of the 5th Australian Light Horse who fell on the 28th
June 1915. THE EIGHTH BATTERY CEMETERY, half-way between Shell Green and Hell
Spit, containing the graves of seven men of the 8th Battery, Australian Field
Artillery. In March 1927, the graves of 20 sailors and soldiers who died in 1922
and 1923 were removed from Kelia Liman, near Maidos, and reburied here between
the Artillery Road Plot and Row G of Plot II..

LOCATION

Shell Green Cemetery is 300 metres up
a hilly track (Artillery Road) from the coast road, which may not be driveable
in wet weather. The last part must be walked in all weathers.

- Killed 31st July 1915, aged 44.
- Harris Ridge was named after him.
- Harris was described as "... one of nature's gentlemen and a
real good soldier. He was shot in the jugular through a loophole one night and
only lived a few minutes after."

Kelia Liman Plot are 20 UK
soldiers and sailors from the occupation of this area in 1922/23. The graves
were moved here in March 1927.